News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes study visit to Croatia, Serbia for police trainers
Publishing date: 3 December 2012
The OSCE Mission to Skopje organized a five-day study visit to the police training facilities in Croatia and Serbia for ten trainers from the Interior Ministry from 2 to 8 December 2012...
Head of OSCE Centre in Astana meets regional authorities and civil society in South Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 3 December 2012
From 30 November to 1 December 2012, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalya Zarudna, and the Centre staff visited the South Kazakhstan Region and its capital, Shymkent...
Diplomats discuss quiet and preventive diplomacy at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Young diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan discussed quiet and preventive diplomacy mechanisms at an OSCE-supported course that ended in Ashgabat on 30 November 2012...
OSCE supports international forum in Ukraine on case law of European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
More than one hundred legal practitioners and scholars are taking part in an OSCE-supported international forum on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that starts in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 30 November 2012...
OSCE representative concerned over threat to media pluralism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
VIENNA, 29 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today that legal proceedings initiated against several media outlets in Kazakhstan might severely undermine media pluralism in the country...
Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Co-operation addresses OSCE, stresses need to jointly counter religious intolerance
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 November 2012 and stressed the need to jointly address intolerance and discrimination on religious grounds...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Spain
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Madrid from 26 to 29 November 2012 to present the final report of the Election Assessment Mission for last year’s early parliamentary elections in Spain...